Claes Johnson

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden

Professor of applied mathematics, Chalmers Institute of Technology 1981-2007, Royal Institute of Technology 2008- . !00 articles and 10 books on computational mathematics and physics.

Jun Chen

University of California
USA

Dr. Jun Chen is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles. His current research focuses on nanotechnology and bioelectronics for energy, sensing, environment, and therapy applications in the form of smart textiles, wearables, and body area sensor networks. He has already published 2 books, 115 journal articles and 70 of them are as first/corresponding authors in Chemical Reviews, Nature Energy, Nature Electronics, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Joule, Matter, and many others. His works were selected as research highlights by Nature and Science 6 times. He also filed 14 US patents and licensed 1. He is currently an Associate Editor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and an Editorial Board Member of Advanced Fiber Materials, Nano-Micro Letters, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Chemistry, and Smart Materials in Medicine. With a current h-index of 61, he was identified to be one of the world’s most influential researchers in the field of Materials Science by the Web of Science Group, and on the global list of The Highly Cited Researchers 2019.

Andrey Starikovskiy

Princeton University
USA

Graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1988, PhD (1991) in Mechanics of plasmas, gases and liquids, Doctor of Science (2000) in Physics of Plasma and Thermodynamics Associate Fellow of AIAA (2019). Editor-in-Chief of "Plasma" (MDPI). Senior researcher at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Houbing Song

University of Virginia
USA

Houbing Song (M’12–SM’14) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in August 2012, and the M.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas, El Paso, TX, in December 2006. In August 2017, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, where he is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab, www.SONGLab.us). He served on the faculty of West Virginia University from August 2012 to August 2017. In 2007 he was an Engineering Research Associate with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. He has served as an Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine (2017-present), an Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020-present) and IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems (J-MASS) (2020-present), and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Network. He is the editor of six books, including Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems: Machine Learning for the Internet of Things, Elsevier, 2019, Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles and Applications, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017, Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications, Chichester, UK: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017, Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications, Boston, MA: Academic Press, 2016, and Industrial Internet of Things: Cybermanufacturing Systems, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. He is the author of more than 100 articles. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity and privacy, internet of things, edge computing, AI/machine learning, big data analytics, unmanned aircraft systems, connected vehicle, smart and connected health, and wireless communications and networking. His research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including IEEE GlobalSpec's Engineering360, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Fox News, Forbes, WFTV, and New Atlas.

Pier Marzocca

RMIT University
Australia

Professor Pier Marzocca is the Associate Dean for the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation Discipline in the School of Engineering at RMIT University. He holds a Research Professorial position from Clarkson University in USA, and academic credentials from Virginia Tech, University of South California, the US Naval Research Laboratory, with a PhD and Master from Politecnico di Torino Italy. Prof Marzocca is internationally recognised for his work on aerospace aerodynamics, structures, controls and their interactions. Prof Marzocca received the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, the ONR ASEE Senior Faculty Award, the Clarkson's Research Excellence, and Outstanding New Teacher Awards. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Pier Marzocca is an accomplished author of over 400 technical papers and has supervised more than 40 PhD and Master students to completion.

Christian Bak

Technical University of Denmark
Denmark

Jean-Jacques Tortora

Director
European Space Policy Institute
Austria

Since June 1, 2016 Jean-Jacques Tortora serves as the Director of the European Space Policy Institute.From 2007 to mid 2016 he was the Secretary General of ASD-Eurospace, which is the trade association of the European Space Industry.From 2004 to mid 2007, he was head of the French Space Agency (CNES) office in North America and the Attaché for Space and Aeronautics at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.Previously he was Deputy Director for Strategy and Programs, responsible for the Industrial Strategy of CNES, the French Space Agency.From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Tortora was adviser to the French Ministry of Research for Industrial Policy Funds management.From 1996 to 1998, he was appointed by Arianespace in Evry, France.

Weidong Zhu

University of Maryland
USA

Weidong Zhu is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He received his double major BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively. He is an ASME Fellow, and has served as an Associate Editor or Subject Editor of the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Journal of Sound and Vibration, and Nonlinear Dynamics. He has published 225 archival journal papers and has five issued U.S. patents.

Subrata Roy

University of Florida
USA

Dr. Subrata Roy is an international leader in the area of multi-scale numerical modeling and design of surface plasma technology. He is the President of SurfPlasma, the founding director of the Applied Physics Research Group (APRG), and a professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a nationally appointed member of the NATO STO on the assessment of plasma-based internal flow control and space propulsion activities. Dr. Roy is an Editorial Board member of Nature Scientific Reports and an Academic Editor of PLOS-One. He has co-authored over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals and bound volumes. He has 35 patented and patent-pending inventions on plasma-related flow control devices and sterilizers.

Hongbin Gu

UNC School of Medicine
USA

Hongbin Gu was elected to the Town Council in 2017. Dr. Gu is a faculty member at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She received a Ph.D. in mathematical psychology and a master’s degree in statistics from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is an active researcher in autism and child developmental delays. Dr. Gu served on the Town of Chapel Hill Environmental Stewardship Advisory Board before being elected to the Town Council. She has volunteered for Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools in its PTA, School Improvement Teams, and advisory boards. She is the former principal and current board chair of the Chinese School at Chapel Hill. She is the organizer of the community culture event LIGHTUP.

S. Gopalakrishnan

Indian Institute of Science
India

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Camli Badrya

Technical University of Braunschweig
Germany

I earned my B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), 2007, and Master and doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering at Maryland University, College Park in the United States, 2017. My doctoral research focuses on utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to investigate the aerodynamic principles behind bio-inspired flapping-wing flight. In 2015, I was recognized with an Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award; Amelia Earhart Fellowship. After completing my Ph.D. studies in 2017, I received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park researching unsteady flow and gust response at low Reynolds numbers. In June 2019, I started my current position as an Independent Research Group lead and lecturer at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics at Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. My research group titled “physics of laminar wing and fuselage” whose main objectives include conducting fundamental research on hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) by suction means on wing and fuselage of transport aircraft, developing the design and optimization tools for airfoil/wing with the suction-based system, and investigating the suction boundary layer using wind tunnel experiments and computational tools.

Liang Guozhu

Beihang University
China

In July 1987, he graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics with a bachelor’s degree in solid rocket engine major; in March 1990, he graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics major in solid rocket engine major with a master’s degree; in March 2000, he graduated from Obtained a doctorate degree in aerospace propulsion theory and engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.From March 1990 to August 1993, he stayed on to teach in the sixth research room of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Beihang University, engaged in the teaching and research direction of friction and fluid lubrication. From September 1993 to present, he has been in the Aerospace University of Beihang University. The Department of Aerospace Propulsion of the College is engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of space propulsion. He was promoted to associate professor in July 1995, professor in July 2002, and was hired as a doctoral supervisor in 2004.The current 2018-2022 Secretary-General of the Aerospace Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education (2018.11-), Deputy Director of China Aerospace Third Professional Information Network (2017.8-), China Aerospace Third Professional Information Network (China Aerospace Power Federation) Director of the Professional Committee of Liquid Propulsion Technology (2019.8-), member of the 6th Academic Committee of the National Defense Key Laboratory of Solid Rocket Motor Combustion, Thermal Structure and Internal Flow Field (2016.12-), deputy editor of the core journal "Propulsion Technology" ( 2016.1-), member of the editorial board of the core journal "Solid Rocket Technology" (2016.8-), member of the editorial board of the core journal "Rocket Propulsion" (2017.9-), member of the editorial board of the internal journal "Solid Propulsion Technology" (2016-) , Member of the editorial board of the internal journal "Space Advancement" (2007.1-).

Jay Dean

University of South Florida
USA

Jay B. Dean, PhD, Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology; director, USF Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida USA Dr. Dean received his PhD in physiology from Ohio State University (1981-86, Neural control of body temperature) and his post-doctoral training at University of North Carolina (1986-91; Neural control of breathing). Dr. Dean has served on the physiology faculty at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio, 1991-2006) and USF (2006-present). He maintains an active research program for the ONR Undersea Medicine Program that focuses on the mechanisms and mitigation of CNS oxygen toxicity. J.B. Dean began researching the history of aviation physiology during WWII in 1983 as a graduate student at Ohio State after he recovered a lost cache of wartime negatives, photographs and films made by Dr. Fred A. Hitchcock, director of the OSU Laboratory of Aviation Physiology (1941-1960).

Mogese Mersha

Bahir Dar University
Ethiopia

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Antonio Davis

Jain University
India

Antonio Davis graduated BE in Mechanical Engineering from Gulbarga University and holds the Master of Science degree (by Research) in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras. He got his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IISc, Bangalore. He has over 25 years of industry experience in the area of aircraft engines. He has more than four years of experience teaching both PG and UG. His teaching and research interest are focused on aircraft propulsion, CFD and heat transfer. He has coordinated many research programs while in industry. He has presented papers at National and International conference.

Mo Mansouri

University of South-Eastern Norway
Norway

Dr. Mo Mansouri joined the School of Systems and Enterprises in July 2006. His research interests are resilience in Infrastructure Systems and Infrastructure Governance. Prior to joining Stevens he served as a consultant for the HAND Foundation, the World Bank, NIAC and other non-profit entities. Dr. Mansouri holds a PhD in Engineering Management from George Washington University.

Zare Shahneh

Cranfield University
UK

Dr Shahneh joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cranfield University to research and lecture in airframe systems design in 2009. He lectures on topics including hydraulics, pneumatics, flight control actuation systems and aerodynamics, as well as providing supervision on related student projects. He is also acting as project examiner and independent Academic Representative to monitor the progress of students. Dr Shahneh has a record of published papers and contributes to journal and conference papers. He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Dr Shahneh is the Course Director for the Pre-Masters in Engineering course. The course provides a professional grounding for engineers to further their studies in Aerospace, Power & Propulsion, Automotive, CFD, Offshore, Astronautics and Renewable Energy.

Zhen Zhang

Beijing Institute of Control Engineering
China

Zhen Zhang has been working in Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology Since 2006. He graduated from Beihang University and researched at the University of Edinburgh as an academic visitor in 2018-2019. And He participates in in-service education and research at Beijing Jiaotong University now. His interests cover bipropellant engine research and atomization combustion analysis. Through Employing experimental diagnosis and simulation analysis, he developed and optimized the new generation 10N, 25N bipropellant attitude thruster, and 750N orbit engine. As a young backbone of the Chinese aerospace industry, he has presided over some major research projects in the field of propulsion technology, many of which have been developed in engineering applications with good reputations. He also has published around30 academic papers and 30 patents, receiving many awards from institutions and Chinese professional associations.

Bin Xu

Beijing University of Chemical Technology
China

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Mariangela Lazoi

University of Salento
Italy

Mariangela Lazoi, PhD in Management Engineering, is a researcher at the Department of Innovation Engineering of the University of Salento. He is scientific and technical manager in several research projects. His research activity is focused on methodologies and technologies for product design, product life cycle management and business process management. He has extensive experience in the analysis of complex industrial sectors, mainly gained during action research in collaboration with manufacturing companies. She is tutor of doctoral and master's and three-year degree theses and moreover, she is the author of several scientific articles published both in journals and in conference proceedings.

Hua Meng

Zhejiang University
China

Dr. Hua Meng is a professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Zhejiang University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, USA (2001). His teaching and research are mainly in the field of propulsion and power engineering, including supercritical-pressure heat transfer, high-pressure turbulent combustion, and PEM fuel cell modeling. He has published many high-quality archival journal articles in the field and is one of the most cited Chinese scholars in the Energy section. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

RAPHAËL GARCIA

Federal University of Toulouse
France

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Nikhil Bharat

National Institute of Technology
India

Nikhil Bharat currently working as a researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal India. Nikhil does research in the area of composite materials, laser-assisted machining, characterization.

Rajasekaran Saminathan

Jazan University
Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Rajasekaran Saminathan has a master's degree in Materials Engineering obtained from the National Institute of Technology (NITK). He then joined the research group of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of NITK. He received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Composites from the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of NITK. He is a life member of the Metallurgical Engineering Society of India. He held several positions like Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering and Dean, Academic Affairs of private engineering colleges in Tamilnadu India. He had the experience of project trainee at Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL)and Indra Gandhi Center for Atomic Research(IGCAR), India. He was leading the accreditation committees of private engineering colleges in India. He had the experience of establishing several research laboratories including the Nano Technology Lab and Corrosion Engineering Lab and Materials Testing Labs in private colleges in India. He is the consultant of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Corrosion Engineering fields. He had the opportunity to work as Visiting Scientist at the University of Putra Malaysia. He is a university gold medalist at graduation level. he has published more than 25 research articles in peer-reviewed journals of the materials science domain. He is one of the reviewers in seven peer-reviewed engineering journals. He has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of College of Engineering, Jazan University in the year 2014. He had the opportunity to work for the curriculum revision of Mechanical Engineering of College of Engineering and the same is approved by the Ministry of Higher Education, Riyad, Saudi Arabia. He had the opportunity to design the curriculum of undergraduate programs of Nuclear Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, postgraduate programs like Heat Transfer, Production Engineering, Renewable Energy, and Corrosion Engineering for the Jazan University. His expertise domains include Aerospace composites, Corrosion engineering, surface coating technology, and Nanotechnology.

Sidney Goossens

University in Brussels
Belgium

Sidney Goossens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Photonics and Applied Physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium. He is part of the Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT) research group, where his main research interests are Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS). In particular, his research is about fibre Bragg grating-based sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM) of composite materials. With his work, he hopes to contribute to developing lighter, stronger and smarter materials for aerospace applications in order to reduce maintenance cost, fuel consumption and pollution of future aircraft. Sidney achieved a Bachelor’s degree in physics in 2012 at the Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium. Interested in a more experimental, yet still fundamental trajectory, he started a Master of Science in Engineering in Photonics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Universiteit Gent, Belgium. In 2015 he achieved his master's degree Cum Laude. For his Master Thesis on "Dynamic strain analysis with micro-structured fibre optic strain sensors embedded in structural components", Sidney was awarded several national recognitions. Caught by the subject of his thesis, he started his PhD in 2015 at the VUB in the same research interest: Barely visible impact damage detection in aerospace-grade carbon fibre reinforced polymer components with optical fibre sensors. Sidney obtained his PhD in the first half of 2021 and continued working at VUB B-PHOT as a postdoctoral researcher.

Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez

European Space Agency
France

Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez has been with European Space Agency (ESA) for more than 25 years. He is a Communications Security expert at ESTEC, the ESA Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. He has been involved with the definition and development of telecommand and telemetry communications security solutions for a number of ESA missions and projects. He has supervised research and development activities concerning security functions both at the radio and data levels. Prior to this, he was the lead Communications System Engineer for the ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle during its design and development phase.

Doachun Li

Beihang University
China

Daochun Li, professor; Deputy Dean of the school of Aeronautic Science engineering, Beihang University. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, BeihangUniversity in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he worked as a Research Fellow at Cranfield University working with academic members of a project (FP7) team in order to deliver project outcomes and publications. He has served at Beihang University since 2012. His research interests include the design of morphing wing and MAV (Micro Air Vehicle), nonlinear aeroelastic analysis and control, and energy harvesting from aeroelastic vibration. He has worked on research projects funded by NSFC and AVIC of China and presided over some major research projects in the field of aircraft design technology. He has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conferences.

Sergio Montenegro

Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
Germany

Sergio Montenegro was born in Guatemala on 23.7.1959. He studied there and in the TU-Berlin computer science and received his doctorate in distributed systems and communication in 1989. He worked at GMD/Fraunhofer from 1985 to 2007 as a project manager, where he developed the fastest computer (SUPRENUM) in the world and other parallels/distributed systems, also for space applications. From 2007 to 2010, he was department head at DLR to develop develop reliable control and avionics for satellites. Since 2010 he is a professor for Aerospace Information Technology at the University of Würzburg. He develops control systems for satellites, drones, aircraft, underwater vehicles, and others.